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The Associated Press

Updated:
06/02/2014 03:03:14 AM EDT

"But most of all, I'm proud of how much you wanted to help the Afghan people, and what you were willing to do to go to that length," - Bob Bergdahl, father of an American soldier, Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl, who was released from captivity in Afghanistan, in a news conference in Boise.

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"The purpose of this rule is to really close the loophole on carbon pollution, reduce emissions as we've done with lead, arsenic and mercury and improve the health of the American people and unleash a new economic opportunity," - Frances Beinecke, president of the Natural Resources Defense Council, commenting on the White House plan to cut earth-warming pollution from power plants by 30 percent by 2030, which the Obama administration will roll out on Monday.

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"The new elements in this investigation draw attention once more to the problem of the 'returnees' - in other words the people going to Syria to participate in combat and return afterward to our country," - Belgian federal prosecutor Frederic Van Leeuw on the arrest of French jihadist Mehdi Nemmouche over the shooting deaths of three people at a Belgian Jewish museum. Nemmouche reportedly went to Syria for a year in late 2012.